Posted on 05/28/2004 3:45:53 PM PDT by demlosers
"Jeez, I didn't realize that when you serve your country you abdicate your constitutional rights."
Most civilians do not recognize this. When you take that oath, you become subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and any offenses that you commit are tried in military courts.
So, yes, this guy voluntarily relinquished his constitutional rights, and moreover, he KNOWS that. He's running to the press because he knows he's at risk of prosecution himself for not notifying his higher command of the problem early on.
This joker NOT the example of what a Non Comissioned Officer is supposed to be!
"When you take that oath, you become subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and any offenses that you commit are tried in military courts."
And you also...in that oath...swear you will obey the orders of those above you....to INCLUDE keeping your yap shut when given a direct order to do so.
This guy didn't and will now have to pay the consequences.
First there are thsoe three knuckle heads who tell ABC that Rummy shoul dbe fired and would tell him so if he was standing before them in Iraq...then ABC finds this box of rocks!
Note to the Public Affairs Chief at the Pentagon..scratch any future requests by ABC for interviews with soldiers. They have an anti-Military agenda.
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